The Pride parade we have now is only possible because the first gay pride was a Riot!įollow Mental Anonymity on WordPress. In 2018, the Edmonton Gay Pride Parade was temporarily interrupted by a group of protestors from within the LGBT community demanding the police and. Remember them before you have the audacity to exclude anyone who isn’t a cis white gay person from your community or write things like “no fats, no femmes, no Asians” on your dating profiles (looking specifically at you, white gay men, on that one). Today, the Gay Pride in Edmonton attracts more than 50.000 spectators from all over the world every year and became one of the most important and biggest LGBTQ2S+ and gay pride events in Canada. Remember that when you’re waving feminist posters with words like “Pussy grabs back”, that womanhood should never be equated with ovaries. Remember them the next time you or someone around you tries to exclude trans people from the lgbtq+ narrative and says “but she’s not reeeeaally a woman”. Remember that when you go to Pride this year.
Without their will, effort, passion and struggles, we would not have gotten here. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera who were the first to resist under the law and were outspoken activists throughout their lives to help our community become what it is today. What a great day to remember that trans women of color were at the forefront of the lgbtq+ movement and that we wouldn’t have come as far as we have without them.
